A general in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps has been killed in Syria,
according to Iranian news agencies. General Hassan Shateri, an officer in
the corp’s Qods Force, which is responsible for foreign operations, is the
most senior Iranian military figure to die in the civil war. He was
reportedly killed e travelling from Damascus to Beirut.

Voice of Lebanon radio, however, reported Fahd al-Masri, a spokesman
for the rebel Free Syrian Army, as claiming that General Shateri had died
two weeks ago when Israeli jets bombed an alleged arms convoy outside
Damascus. The airstrike occurred in Jermaya, four miles northwest